Category Archives: Adoration

THE CATERPILLAR METHOD

The caterpillar, in ‘Alice in Wonderland’, advises Alice (at a loss to tell her story), to “start at the beginning… go onto the end, then stop.” Smart Lepidoptera! A story is a chrysalis of transformation. A first draft must become … Continue reading →

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SOMETIMES, SCIENCE FICTION IS SIMPLY A MYSTICAL LOVE STORY… SOMETIMES IT TAKES TWO LIVES TO MAKE ONE WOMAN!

Delphi Sharpe, an autistic teenage orphan with the extrasensory ability to converse with birds and paintings, has a tenuous grip on reality. After she falls in love with a boy named Cecco who calls to her from a 500-year-old painting, … Continue reading →

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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE

Love survives five-hundred years of dust to rekindle the bittersweet romance between the ghost of Sandro Botticelli and a retired art history professor. As a teenager in 1967, I’d been the poster girl for romantic dreamers in love with love. … Continue reading →

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THE BAREFOOT GHOST

The Titanic disaster changes the destiny of Finn Cleary, a drowned Irish boy whose pained mother had admonished him before sailing: “KEEP YOUR FIRST PAIR OF STORE-BOUGHT SHOES CLEAN AND UNSCUFFED TO MEET YOUR COUSINS IN NEW YORK OR I’LL … Continue reading →

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‘THE INDIGO PEARL’

Following a phantom robin through the painted caves of Lascaux’s ‘hall of the horses’, takes THE SPIRIT OF DELPHI SHARPE, AN AUTISTIC TEENAGE GIRL IN A COMA, ON A POSTHUMOUS SEARCH FOR THE BOY IN A 500-YEAR-OLD PAINTING SHE FELL … Continue reading →

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THE GHOST OF SNOW

Lady Nan closed her book of ghost stories with a snap and waggled her finger at her spellbound grandchildren “And so,” she said. “If you really want something enough, a little thing like dying won’t stop you.” Curmudgeonly Bede Hall … Continue reading →

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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CLOISTER

I like to think that there are no clichés without fire. As an author, I’ve been coached (read commanded) by mentors and editors, to avoid writing clichés like the p l – g – e. (Nope, not going to give … Continue reading →

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DEAR JOHN

JOHN DONNE wrote ‘no man is an island’… but now we have to be:     “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod … Continue reading →

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THERE’S GHOSTS IN MY CHEESE

THE FIRST HELLO It was lunchtime in my kitchen. Innocent of anything untoward, I hummed cheerfully as I assembled the ingredients for a sandwich. Not owning a great musical voice, I make it a point to only hum in private … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S CAT

            Leonardo da Vinci was big on alchemy – the science of his day, especially, the magic of mathematical proportions when it came to drawing the perfect human body. His famous spread-eagle illustration ‘The Vitruvian … Continue reading →

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